TOMB 16 (continuation)

click to enlarge photographThe organisation of the enclosure is the result of the several usages over time. There are arcosolia for inhumation and smaller niches for urns. Many were painted with flower motifs and geometrical figures. In the central niche of the left wall of the enclosure three humans were depicted. Two female and one nude male. They could be Heracles and Alcestis or Hermes and Euridice. click to enlarge photograph


Further on, between the left wall
of the burial chamber and the
southern wall of the enclosure,
there is a furnace used for preparing funeral meals.
The whole enclosure was paved with a mosaic
floor below which room was created
for sarcophagi in later time (see also the inscription).


The furnace in the enclosure